We don’t normally think of batteries as being natural, but the parts that make them originally got their start in nature! In this activity you will build a battery using potatoes, lemons, and metal ...

Science can reward its practitioners with thrilling eureka moments — with an emphasis on “moments.” A lot of research is ...

Cloverbuds may also make an electromagnet or make a battery from a potato. Cloverbud projects are for exhibition only (not judged), so there are no score cards, and exhibits are not eligible to ...

But we also have our Hackaday Prize achievements, with less at stake leading to a more free-wheeling way to recognize projects that catch our eye. Most of the achievements center around fun topics ...

In honor of Google's announcement of the 15 finalists for its 2013 Science Fair, we compiled our list of the most wild, inspiring, and exciting science fair projects from years past. These are 16 ...

First, when people do the potato- or ... be putting out a fair amount of juice (Amperes, that is). We’ve got to wonder — what is the short-circuit current of a lemon battery?

Around that time, he was leafing through a science ... s thermal battery are three compounds: sodium acetate trihydrate (SAT), a food flavoring used in salt-and-vinegar potato chips; water ...

There are a lot of prosthetics on the market, but there's nothing quite like Andrew Eggebraaten's robotic hand, which can perform 58 different tasks. Even more impressive, the hand responds to ...

In a potato field near the Netherlands’ border ... miles from the Arctic Circle to be a global leader in exports of a fair-weather fruit: the tomato. The Dutch are also the world’s top ...

Dozens of people who had been working at the iM3NY battery production facility in Endicott have lost ... Grant funding to ...